Informes

Oxfam GB Country Representative Chris Johnson gives a vivid account of her recent trip to Zabul province, Afghanistan and the effect the drought is having on the people there. We leave Kabul at dawn, the already-warm air brown with dust.…

The head of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) today urged a meeting of donors in Portugal to continue to provide funds for the UN's work in the newly independent territory, highlighting the need for sustained…

Summer may have arrived in Mongolia but the consequences of this year's devastating 'dzud' - as the severe winter is called - are far from being over for 450,000 people scattered in the 13 affected provinces. Current high temperatures…

Two Indonesian navy ships have evacuated more than 700 people after an attack on their village in Maluku province on Monday. Muslim fighters killed scores of people in the attack on the Christian village of Duma, on Halmahera island. The refugees…

News Release No: 2000/443/EAP LISBON, June 21, 2000--The World Bank and the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) today signed agreements for grants to the sectors of education and agriculture, bringing the programs under the World Bank administered…

A group of armed men has attacked peacekeepers of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET), causing damage to buildings but no injuries, the UN mission said today in the capital Dili. According to UNTAET, an infantry position of…

When the house started shaking late at night on June 4, Esa's grandmother rushed to rescue her from falling walls and roof tiles. She managed to protect Esa who survived with a broken left leg but her grandmother passed…

Dili, 21 June 2000 NEW STRUCTURE OF NCC PROPOSED CNRT and UNTAET have agreed on the new composition and structure of the National Consultative Council (NCC). The new expanded 33-member NCC is also likely to have a change of name.…

Pakistan (Baluchistan) 1st Phase Islamic Relief (IR) has completed its first phase of Drought Relief Operation (D.R.O) on 24 May 2000, in which IR reached to the people in their Killis (villages) and provided food for 1000 most affected families in…

The Government of DPR Korea has requested the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to assist in the preparation and organisation of a second thematic Round-Table Meeting on Agricultural Recovery and Environmental Protection (AREP). The aims of…